Comparison

SpendBalance vs Sinkstack

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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SpendBalance

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SpendBalance shows you where your money goes, without the setup. Add a purchase in two taps. Set rent, subscriptions and allowances once and they track themselves โ€” daily, weekly or monthly โ€” so you only log what you actually choose to spend. Everything stays on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, nothing collected. WHAT YOU GET - Two-tap entry โ€” log a purchase in seconds - Recurring transactions โ€” set repeating income and expenses once and let them run daily, weekly or monthly - Four dashboard widgets โ€” month's overview, balance trend, budget situation and spending split - 38 categories in groups like Campus Life, Food & Social and Personal Wellbeing โ€” pick the 7 that matter to you - Day, week, month and year views - 66 currencies - Custom colours and a dashboard you arrange yourself - Dark mode, following your system setting HOW IT WORKS SpendBalance doesn't connect to your bank. You enter what you spend, which takes a couple of seconds โ€” and means the app works with any bank in any country, and that your financial data never leaves your device. Recurring items handle the predictable spending on their own. Start in under a minute. No sign-up screen, nothing to connect.

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Sinkstack

Features
Currently charting
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Payday Bridge projects a dated cash pool so you can see shortfalls before payday, even when the period ends with money left over. HOW IT WORKS 1. Open Payday Bridge from the dashboard. Enter an opening cash amount, desired buffer and 1โ€“90 day horizon, or explore the labeled example. 2. Add dated income and payments. Mark uncertain income, then compare the entered baseline with uncertain income excluded or all paydays delayed by up to 14 days. 3. Inspect the lowest daily closing balance, same-day posting-order sensitivity and exact daily ledger. Save the plan and share its dates and assumptions. Envelope tracking, recurring schedules, Funding Calendar, paycheck allocation, catch-up planning, statements and existing scenario tools remain available. Saved plans preserve exact cents; failed writes keep the previous in-memory state and corrupt files are preserved. WHAT TO KNOW Manual USD planning for one cash pool, with up to 200 entries per plan and 50 saved plans. Amounts are stored as integer cents. Payments-before-income assumes all same-day outgoings precede incoming cash; actual posting order is unknown. Delayed income beyond the horizon is reported separately. No bank account is connected and no payments or envelope-balance changes occur. Include all obligations and avoid counting envelope transfers and their eventual bills twice. iPhone and iPad.

Screenshots

SpendBalance4 screens
Sinkstack3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SpendBalance at Free against Sinkstack's $0.99. Sinkstack's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#38 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

SpendBalance is free to download; Sinkstack costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SpendBalance ships an update every 3 weeks, Sinkstack every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 4 level
SpendBalance versus Sinkstack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpendBalanceSinkstack
PriceFree โ€” better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Best chart rankโ€”#38 โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size46 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven SbarbaroRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

SpendBalance

No in-app purchases

None

Sinkstack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpendBalance free?
SpendBalance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sinkstack free?
Sinkstack costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SpendBalance or Sinkstack have ads?
Neither SpendBalance nor Sinkstack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SpendBalance or Sinkstack?
SpendBalance ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sinkstack every 5 days. Most recently, SpendBalance was updated on October 3, 2026 and Sinkstack on October 12, 2026.

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